– It is cool to see that the last Swiss guys who took medals at JWOCs, they are now in the elite team and they are now the World Champions. So for me, that’s cool to see my future will maybe be the same, says Swiss Florian Schneider – winning ...

Matthias Kyburz (Switzerland) was the big star of the orienteering events in World Games 2013 with three times gold – winning a close battle in the opening sprint distance, a clear victory in the middle distance and a deciding the mixed sprint relay for Switzerland on the third leg. Annika ...

Friday August 2nd – Sunday August 4th: Orienteering in World Games 2013 in Cali, Colombia offers live streaming, GPS-tracking and live results. Norwegian Jørn Sundy will be speaker on the live streaming. With many medalists from the World Championships in Vuokatti on the start list the sprint (Friday), middle distance ...

The strong feelings involved – for both winners and losers – is what makes sports interesting. Read on for some selected moments from WOC 2013 – both the winners in pictures and the disappointments in the athletes own words. All photos from WOC 2013 are posted on the World of ...

Norway won gold in the women’s relay after a great team performance – Heidi Bagstevold, Mari Fasting and Anne Margrethe Hausken running steadily from start until finish while the other teams had problems with the tricky and strongly forked courses. A clear silver medal went to Finland with Minna Kauppi ...

Dmitriy Tsvetkov decided a very tight and exciting WOC relay for Russia on the last leg – orienteering and running away from Sweden’s Gustav Bergman and the big surprise of the day: Denys Shcherbakov for Ukraine. Oleksandr Kratov brought Ukraine into the lead after the second leg – sending young ...

A lot to learn from these mistakes – unfortunately a bit late for the competitors here in Finland. Now looking forward to the relay! The full gallery is posted here: Gallery: Top 160 mistakes from WOC Middle Final Follow the WOC relay live Links to live services: Online results, GPS-tracking, Live TV payment. ...

Simone Niggli wins Gold also on Middle after deciding a tricky middle distance for herself . Niggli started with a mistake on the first control – being in 34th place of the 45 starters when she found the flag – but took over the lead after a fantastic long leg ...

Leonid Novikov surprised everybody – including himself – by winning the World Champions middle distance in Vuokatti, Finland today. Thierry Gueorgiou finished second after a one-minute mistake at control which he never managed to fully catch up. Sweden’s Gustav Bergman became third. Below you see the mistake of Gueorigou at ...

Live from 12:10 CET (men) and 14:05 CET (women). Who are the favourites to take the WOC Middle title in this year’s WOC in Finland? The technical terrain (see some examples from the very tricky middle distance qualification above) makes the race more open in the women’s class – and ...